Name: Extreme Precision in Radial Velocity IV
Start: 2019-03-17T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2019-03-21T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Sunstar Hotel, Grindelwald, Switzerland

Extreme Precision in Radial Velocity IV

from Sunday 17 March 2019 (17:00) to Thursday 21 March 2019 (18:00)

Monday 11 March 2019
Tuesday 12 March 2019
Wednesday 13 March 2019
Thursday 14 March 2019
Friday 15 March 2019
Saturday 16 March 2019
Sunday 17 March 2019

17:00 Registration (next to hotel registration desk)
Registration (next to hotel registration desk)
17:00 - 18:30

18:30 Welcome drink (hotel lobby)
Welcome drink (hotel lobby)
18:30 - 19:30

Monday 18 March 2019
09:00 (Chair: Heather Cegla)
(Chair: Heather Cegla)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Mitigating stellar signals to reveal other Earths: review on the impact of stellar activity on exoplanet detectability - Nadège Meunier (University of Grenoble)

09:30 Studying Radial-velocity variations of active stars in the CARMENES Survey for Exoplanets - Sepideh Sadegi (Landessternwarte/MPIA Heidelberg)

09:50 HARPS-N radial velocities from the Sun-as-a-star - Annelies Mortier (University of Cambridge)

10:10 Line by line radial velocities to mitigate stellar activity - Xavier Dumusque (Université de Genève)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 (Chair: Debra Fischer)
(Chair: Debra Fischer)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Extremely Precise Radial Velocities: From Periodic Signals to Planet Detections - Andreas Quirrenbach (Landessternwarte, ZAH, U Heidelberg)

11:20 Reconciling the planetary interpretation of the radial velocity super-Earth K2-18c - Ryan Cloutier

11:40 FIESTA: new technique to parametrize stellar variability - Jinglin Zhao (UNSW)

12:00 Discussion: Stellar activity
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00

14:00 (Organiser: Arpita Roy)
(Organiser: Arpita Roy)
14:00 - 15:45

(Organiser: Joe Ninan)
(Organiser: Joe Ninan)
14:00 - 15:45

(Organisers: Heather Cegla, Raphaëlle Haywood)
(Organisers: Heather Cegla, Raphaëlle Haywood)
14:00 - 15:45

15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:30
16:30 (Chair: Sharon X. Wang)
(Chair: Sharon X. Wang)
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 Review: Telluric contamination - Cullen Blake (University of Pennsylvania)

17:00 Is telluric correction required for precise radial velocities? - Solene Ulmer-Moll (IA/U. Porto)

17:20 Effects of Tellurics in PRVs and Effectiveness of Mitigation Strategies - Natasha Latouf (George Mason University)

17:40 Telluric emission and absorption correction in the HPF and NEID pipeline - Kyle Kaplan (The University of Arizona)
19:00 Social event
Social event
19:00 - 23:00
Tuesday 19 March 2019
09:00 (Chair: Suvrath Mahadevan)
(Chair: Suvrath Mahadevan)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Review: Error budge in EPRV - Sam Halverson (MIT)

09:30 High Performance Infrared Detectors for EPRV Measurements - Jim Beletic (Teledyne Imaging Sensors)

10:00 Electro-optic laser frequency comb for spectrograph calibration - Ewelina Obrzud (Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva)

10:15 Rubidium traced Etalon wavelength calibrators: towards deployment at observatories - Christian Schwab (Macquarie University)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 (Chair: Aldo Bonomo)
(Chair: Aldo Bonomo)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Review: Statistical Methods for Estimating Radial Velocities in the Presence of Stellar Activity - João Faria (Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of Porto)

11:30 Gaussian processes regression networks for the analysis of RV data - João Camacho (Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço)

11:50 Robustness of eccentricity estimates - Nathan Hara (Université de Genève)

12:10 Data-Driven Spectroscopy of Cool Stars at High Spectral Resolution - Aida Behmard (Caltech)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00

14:00 (Organiser: Evangelos Nagel)
(Organiser: Evangelos Nagel)
14:00 - 15:45

(Organisers: Heather Cegla, Raphaël Haywood, Nathan Hara, Sophia Sulis)
(Organisers: Heather Cegla, Raphaël Haywood, Nathan Hara, Sophia Sulis)
14:00 - 15:45

15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:30
16:30 (Chair: Francesco Pepe)
(Chair: Francesco Pepe)
16:30 - 18:05
Contributions

16:30 Review: Spectrograph design for EPRV - Mahadevan Suvrath (Penn State Unibversity)

17:00 Review: Light injection into EPRV spectrographs - Bruno Chazelas (University of Geneva)

17:30 FIOS: A Fabry Perot Instrument for O2 Searches - Sagi Ben-Ami (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

17:45 Diffraction-Limited Instruments for PRV Measurements and Direct Planet Spectroscopy - Chas Beichman
Wednesday 20 March 2019
08:15 (Chair: Isabelle Boisse)
(Chair: Isabelle Boisse)
08:15 - 09:45
Contributions

08:15 ESPRESSO - Francesco Pepe

08:30 EXPRES - Lily Zhao

08:45 MINERVA-Australis and SONG: New PRV Observatories in Australia - Rob Wittenmyer (University of Southern Queensland)

09:00 The Veloce Doppler Spectrograph at the AAT - Chris Tinney (UNSW Sydney)

09:15 First results from PEPSI - Klaus Strassmeier (AIP)

09:30 NEID - Paul Robertson
09:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
09:45 - 10:15
10:15 (Chair: Ansgar Reiners)
(Chair: Ansgar Reiners)
10:15 - 12:00
Contributions

10:15 The CARMENES radial velocity instrument: performance and results - Ignasi Ribas (ICE/CSIC & IEEC)

10:30 IRD: Infrared PRV instrument for the Subaru Telescope - Takayuki KOTANI (ABC/NAOJ)

10:45 HPF - Joe Ninan

11:00 SPIRou spectropolarimeter in operation at CFHT - François Bouchy

11:15 Radial velocities with GIANO-B, the NIR spectrograph at TNG - Ilaria Carleo

11:30 iLocater: Moving from design to fabrication - Jonathan Crass (University of Notre Dame)

11:45 Precise Near Infrared Radial Velocities With iSHELL - Peter Plavchan (George Mason University)
12:00 Free time and social activities
Free time and social activities
12:00 - 18:00
Thursday 21 March 2019
09:00 (Chair: Dave Latham)
(Chair: Dave Latham)
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 NIRPS on track to join HARPS on the ESO 3.6-m - Bouchy François

09:15 HARPS 3 - Sam Thompson

09:30 Better Radial Velocity Measurement Precision Through Organic Chemistry: The GMT Consortium Large Earth Finder (G-CLEF) - Andrew Szentgyorgyi (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

09:45 MAROON-X: An Earth-Finder Spectrograph for the Gemini Observatory - Julian Stuermer
10:00 (Chair: Dave Latham)
(Chair: Dave Latham)
10:00 - 10:30
Contributions

10:00 Precision NIR RM effect observations with the Habitable-zone Planet Finder - Gudmundur Stefansson (Penn State University)

10:15 A fundamental test of planet formation: searching for low-mass planets around metal-poor stars - João Faria (Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 (Chair: Christophe Lovis)
(Chair: Christophe Lovis)
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Review: RV pipelines - Arpita Roy

11:30 Automated data reduction pipelines for the HPF and NEID spectrometers - Chad Bender (University of Arizona)

11:50 Unveiling Iodine-Calibrated RV Spectroscopy - Benjamin Fulton (California Institute of Technology)

12:10 Using Gaussian processes for precise and robust radial velocity extraction - Vinesh Maguire-Rajpaul (University of Cambridge)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00

14:00 (Organiser: Christian Schwab)
(Organiser: Christian Schwab)
14:00 - 15:45

(Organiser: Xavier Dumusque)
(Organiser: Xavier Dumusque)
14:00 - 15:45

(Organiser: Nathan Hara, Sophia Sulis)
(Organiser: Nathan Hara, Sophia Sulis)
14:00 - 15:45

15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:30
16:30 NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program and precision radial velocity - Eric Mamajek (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program and precision radial velocity
- Eric Mamajek (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
16:30 - 16:45
16:45 Best poster presentation (Jacob Luhn) + Adjourn
Best poster presentation (Jacob Luhn) + Adjourn
16:45 - 17:00